Word: bedecked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They were wrong. After ten years of rule by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.), the misery that marked life for most of the country under Somoza is, if anything, worse. The red and black anniversary valentines that bedeck roadside billboards aptly reflect what has always been the regime's strong suit: romantic rhetoric, not reality. The sole success of the F.S.L.N. is holding on to power, despite an eight-year war by the U.S. and its contra rent-an-army. Says Alfredo Cesar, a former contra director and now an opposition political leader in Managua: "The Sandinistas are good...
...first project, which was to bedeck the Quad with tiger stripes, was originally scheduled for this fall, but was postponed because of delays in the Quad renovations, said Mayman. Mayman said that a spring project is in the works...